re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%(Posted by buddhavista on 12/12/12 at 5:45 pm to cwill)

quote:ach met a teenager at the Starbucks who told him he was a libertarian-marxist; therefore, most teenagers are dumb and don't know anything about philosophy or libertarianism. That's Zach!

I can promise you no libertarian marxist would visit starbucks, well maybe to burn it. He does live in S-port, which to paraphrase luke skywalker...If there's a bright center to the universe, you're in the city that it's farthest from.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%(Posted by cwill on 12/12/12 at 9:18 pm to TN Bhoy)

quote:No, this shows that a bunch of dumbass pot smokers value social liberty over economic liberty.

This post clearly shows that you are an out of touch catholic monarchist! Seriously I don't think anyone on this board is more wildly out of touch with the world, this country than a fruit cake like you...your like a weird fricking antique.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%(Posted by PortCityGirl35 on 12/12/12 at 9:58 pm to cwill)

quote:when voting for a lesser-evil some may choose the promise of social-liberalism by the Dems (though false and dumb expectation) over the lack of it found in the Rep party....knowing full-well that neither really are fiscally conservative.

Very good point. Also, for the past two elections the republican nominee has been 65 or over. Maybe they should try to groom someone younger to run at the top of the ticket.

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%(Posted by germandawg on 12/13/12 at 5:55 am to Zach)

quote:There is no such thing as a 'young' Libertarian. It takes thought, debate, and study to become Libertarian. That's why there are no teenagers or women at the Libertarian Convention. Edit: Just found this on Rand Paul. I agree with him. Just vote 'present'

Yes because it takes a genius to understand libertarianism,and it is patently unfair to ask a libertarian exactly what a truly libetarian society would look like. Riiiiiiggghhhhhhttttt.....

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%(Posted by germandawg on 12/13/12 at 6:05 am to buddhavista)

quote:Yeah, every "collective" i have seen ends up falling apart. people are stupid and need leaders.

All societies are collectives, and all socieities thus far in our collective history have ebventually collapsed. It hasn't anything to do with people being stupid, it has to do with people being people. It is in our nature to want more than someone else and some of us are leaders and some of us are followers and society falls apart when the greed that is inherent in all humans becomes all consuming and we have a charismatic leader who sales us on the idea of building an empire.....

re: Reason: Young libertarians supported Obama over Romney by 10%(Posted by cwill on 12/13/12 at 8:49 am to ForeLSU)

quote:I can't imagine a libertarian wanting the government to shape the social landscape through policy...

I wouldn't consider allowing women the choice of whether or not to abort or permitting more access to the marriage contract to be an intrusion. Purely, you'd prefer gov't out of marriage all together, but if they are in access should be open.